Google improved the Voice Access app for Android earlier this month to better find and control icons on the screen, even if they aren’t properly labeled and promoting features like Android Action Blocks, which combine Google Assistant commands into a single button on the home screen, for more than a year. But Android has plenty of other accessibility tools. You can use VoiceOver to find this or any other. To pause the document, tap the button again. Lookout had a major revamp of its own last summer, which helped tie it close to TalkBack. Double tapping this button will begin to voice the document. The feature is closely tied to other Android accessibility tools like Lookout, which provides ongoing audio descriptions of the environment around the user via the smartphone’s camera. The updated TalkBack is the latest way Google has been integrating its voice tech for accessibility purposes. “With these new features and collaborations we hope that more people can find useful and creative ways to use TalkBack.” Accessible All Over “While we put a lot of thought into this redesign, one thing we’ve learned from working with the community is that everyone interacts with their phones in their own way - which makes customization important,” Android accessibility product manager Brian Kemler explained in a blog post. The Braille keyboard has also been updated to offer Arabic and Spanish keyboards along with the Unified English already in place. The menu lets the user customize the screen reader to their preferences as a default. TalkBack also has a new single contextual menu to replace the confusing multi-menu setup from before. The voice controls give fine control over the screen reader, enabling users to ask it to read faster or slower, find a word or phrase, read out only headlines, or break down the reading not only into words but individual letters. One new gesture, swiping up and right, sets TalkBack to listen for one of more than 25 voice commands.
GOOGLE READER VOICE UPDATE
The update adds a dozen new gestures that detect multi-finger movements to select specific text, play or pause media, or ask for help. TalkBack was created as a way to navigate and control Android devices without having to see the screen, with content read out to the user, who could use a Braille keyboard and gestures on the screen to operate the device. TalkBack helps people with impaired vision use Android devices, and Google is implementing the new functions based on requests from the blind and low vision community, further expanding Google’s ongoing expansion of tech accessibility tools. Google has added voice commands and other interactive features to the TalkBack screen reader for Android.
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